HCL Connections Ideas Portal

Welcome to the HCL Connections Product Ideas Lab! The place where you can submit product ideas and enhancement request. We encourage you to participate by voting on, commenting on, and creating new ideas. All new ideas will be evaluated by the HCL Product Management & Engineering teams, and the next steps will be communicated. While not all submitted ideas will be executed upon, community feedback will play a key role in influencing which ideas are and when they will be implemented.

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    Connections cloud - please add thumbnails and Docs preview for csv and Visio Files

    We are working a lot with csv and visio Files. Our users would like to see on Thumbnails in grid format already the first page preview of file contents and on docs viewer these types should be supported. Our users don't like to see the info - no p...
    almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

    How does Connections decide if the Redis traffic should be sent directly or through the tunnel?

    Right now Connections has no implementations, but there is an ongoing development to Provide a configuration option that will allow customers to run all component pack traffic through TLS Implement TLS Enforcement for Component Pack Integratio...
    8 months ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Initial creator of Wiki page should not recieve email notifications if the community manager changed

    f an user creates a Wiki page, he/ she is the only one who receives e-mail notifications of when comments are posted or when people like the Wiki pages.  Even if they moved on from the role — they still receive those emails as they were the o...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Button in Web UI to open documents directly in MS Office rather than in IBM Docs.

    Currently, documents can be opened either in IBM Docs from the Web UI or in MS Office from the Desktop Plug-In. It would be helpful to have a button in the Web UI that allows to open a document currently being displayed directly in the correspondi...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 5 Already Exists

    Remove Overview Page and keep Highlights page only

    If the Highlights page is part of the new Connections versions, why does Connections need to have two pages for main information? I believe the best option is remove the Overview page (or give to Community owners this options) and keep as a defaul...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Already Exists

    Modify internal community allowing it to have external members

    It happens frequently that users create a community and later realize that it would be useful to be able to include external members. Currently, this flag can only be set when creating a community. I understand that this is security relevant, but ...
    about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Blog Link Field in My Profile requires specific formatting not listed in our documentation

    Customer would like some guide or restriction to what the correct formatting and expected entry is for the Blog Link in My Profile for future releases. We were able to test a workaround and added the prefix of the URL with just www. , it seems aft...
    9 months ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Add to the 'Edit Community' settings to stop downloads or edit of files

    A community can be used for security of files rather than transferring them by email. By way of an example a board of directors with some short term executive directors (these EDs have external email addresses) add board minutes and accounts to sh...
    almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Allow guest users to use the DOCS online editing feature!

    It's very annoying that guest users can't online edit DOCS documents. This breaks the workflow. Please allow guest users to use the DOCS online editing feature!
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Already Exists

    The ITM bar should remember the status, whether open or closed

    We have users who like to use the ITM Bar in V8 and some who don't. Those who don't like to use it hide it using the two arrows at the bottom in the browser. However, this setting is not retained. As soon as you refresh the browser page, the ITM B...
    over 1 year ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review
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